NIGER It can be seen from our simulations that the Niger’simports from the EU would increase by about $US 40 million, or 19 per cent. The Niger could also lose ... Reduction in the Niger’sexports to the region and geographical distribution Exports to the region prior to EPA ($US , 000) Export reduction % of export after EPA reduction ($US , 000) Geographical distribution of export reduction Country Ghana Côte d ... be equal to 8.7 per cent of the country’s current exports to the rest of West Africa

ECOWAS IGAD SADC Table 2b: Percentage of Import and Export in two regions Import UEMOA Region Non-UEMOA Export UEMOA Region Non-UEMOA Table 2c: ECOWAS Trade with European Union (In Million US $) Countries ImportsExports UEMOA Region Benin Burkina Faso ... markets as an outlet for their produce. This has an important implication on regional ... Leone, Guinea Bissau and Niger, has also prevented national governments to divert

Increase in EU’s exports by ECOWAS countries • Among ECOWAS countries, the diﬀerences in the relative increases in EU exports are not very important (approximately ... the other ECOWAS countries would all experience an increase in their exports from the EU ... We are also able to show the progression of EU exports to each ECOWAS country after the EPA. For the region on average, EU exports would increase by some 15%. The progression of EU exports seem to be the strongest in Ghana (37%), perhaps reﬂecting

of Lesotho (65 per cent of its manufactured exports). 7 To emphasize the importance ... It is predicted that a number of manufacturer exporters would be hit severely ... per cent of total exports in the cases of Nepal and Haiti (and 200 per cent and 143

as its exports of almost USD 2 billion amount to more than five times its imports (Table 8). ... Table 8: Nigeria’s officially recorded trade with partners in the region, 2004 („000 USD) ExportsImports Net-exports Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Chad Cote d'Ivoire Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Senegal ... of exports that went to its neighbors or West Africa Group partners amounted to just 5.6 per cent of total shipments and its imports from countries in the region to merely 2

from the exporters point of view, in case of the elimination of all tariﬀs on EU imports. It ... in regional exports. Exports to the rest of the region would also decrease in the case ... Nigeria and Senegal seem rather less exposed to a fall in their exports to ECOWAS

by the ECOWAS countries, due to the substitution of intra-regional exports by EU products ... is provided in annex. Trade diversion is the quantity of exports that is being replaced ... millions. The part of this trade diversion that represents forgone exports of Western